Boyd - Naomi Beatrice
NAOMI BEATRICE BOYD
Source: Waveland Independent Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana June 18, 1915
Naomi Beatrice, second daughter of Oliver and Jessie G. Boyd was born Aug 2, 1903 and died June 14, 1915. Like the June rose in briefness and beauty or as a phantom delight, she is gone after but 11 brief years on our earth. For several months she had been the subject of special anxiety and care on the part of her parents. But these latter are overshadowed in the common thought of the Departed by the self-denials of her own sweet spirit. When the pangs of her sickness cut off the expression of her youthfulness, she courageously gave up the happy little associations with school and playmates. And when on accoutn of the nature of the disease she suffered, her diet had to be restricted and little items of recreation omitted, she accepted the ill portion of her fate with courage uncommon to childhood. Naomi was known and will be missed most of all for her kindness and tenderness of heart. Throughout the whole of her short life's span she has been a child of love. She could bear to hear no word of reproach upon even the names of others and the suffering of another of God's creatures was her suffering. she was a member of the Methodist Episcopa Church at Waveland where she joined in 1910 under the pastorate of Rev. Fertich. Every night, in her true-blue Christian fashion, she was accustomed to take her little troubles and perplexings of spirit to God. Near the last of her earth stay she gave expression to a longing for travel - to go on a long, long trip to Westland or East. But the affairs of a workaday world could not grant her request. Yet now, Naomi, your with to see the beyondness of things has been granted - though not by an earthly parentage. And your long, long trip little girl is beautiful, more celestial than your dear little head could ever have dreamed of on earth. And the Beyond is full of the things that you stood for - lvoe and kiness and courage - they are all there, Naomi. Funeral services at the home of the parents near Milligan Wednesday afternoon in charge of Rev. WW Speer. Burial in Maple Ridge Cemetery. LM McLeod. kbz